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The life of Floyd Vincent Doades
Biography
Floyd Vincent Doades and his wife, Helen E. Szabo, were the parents of Thomas Wendel Doades, born in Indiana on November 24, 1932. Their son attended Central High School in South Bend, Indiana.F1
By 1961, Floyd was working as a supervisor in Dallas, Texas. He and Helen lived on Hackney Lane, and their adult son Thomas, a commercial artist who produced artwork for business use, shared their address. A telephone directory placed Floyd on Hackney Lane again in 1974, thirteen years after the earlier listing.F2
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Dallas city directory, 1961, printed p. 434. Floyd V. Doades with Helen E. and Thos W. Doades, commercial artist, at the same Hackney Lane address. Courtesy of UNT Libraries, Portal to Texas History. Original scan retained. Source: UNT Libraries, Portal to Texas History.
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Children with Helen E. Szabo Doades
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Separate Hackney Lane address listing in Dallas telephone directory.
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Other names
Floyd V. Doades
Work & roles
Supervisor
Notes & sources
- F1
Family testimony supplies Floyd’s middle name, Vincent; contemporary records use V. The parental index identifies Thomas’s parents, and Central High School’s The Interlude documents Thomas in 1949 and 1950.
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Dallas city directory, 1961, p. 434, and Dallas telephone directory, 1974, p. 333. These are separate address observations. The 1961 directory gives the occupation supervisor without naming an employer.
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